Category science

This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

The telehealth company Hims & Hers put out a Super Bowl ad that skimped on clarifying that its compounded semaglutide medications aren’t FDA-approved.

In a rare “time-critical” decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the “potentially hazardous” asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a roughly 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.

A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense “Galloway Hoard” found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short time-lapse video captured by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope.

The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.

The surface of Earth’s inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

In the first episode of The Deep End Podcast, we meet Jon Nelson, who shares why he volunteered to get brain implants for his relentless depression.

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.